Delightful dangerous literature - 2666
03.15.2009 Greetings,
Draw, paint, sing, dance, write, disappear.
Tell me a secret, poet. Reveal your wandering verse, your free form exile. There is no salvation.
Not too detached. Not too sentimental. We are surrounded by androids. Give the zombies simple stuff. Let them wrap their minds around artificial entertainment instruments in their operating rooms. Cut them open.
How do we measure their emotional receptivity? How do they establish meaning inside the daily, brutal violence?
Rolling and tumbling. A work of art is never finished. It is abandoned. People take themselves way too serious. The art and elements of a Japanese folding screen - shapes, edges, designs, natural free form.
Tell me why you loved being a campground guard in Costa Brava, Spain. Was it the night, the dark? The ghosts from your childhood? Yes, I imagine it was all the ghost children, all the dead women in Ciudad Juarez. All the unclaimed corpses. All the young girls. Never identified. Never claimed. Forgotten forever.
How you turned to writing fiction to support your family, your children. How you said you would have rather been a detective instead of a writer. How they are related. How you realized your literary life in Spain after Chile, Mexico and lost highways along your way. Wandering. Literature, the abyss.
You created a new novel form before passing on. Thank you. 2666.
Creating literature is a dangerous occupation. Silence, exile and cunning.
Metta.
